Leucosporee 



XEK'OTUS Fr. 



Gr. dry ; Gr. an ear. 



(Plate LVI.) 



, **, 4'. ylf . 



JWi, . ^ * 



XEROTUS DEGENER. 



Hymenophore continuous with 

 the stem, descending into the 

 trama which is homogeneous with 

 the coriaceous pilens. Gills cori- 

 aceous, broadly plicseform, di- 

 chotomous, edge quite entire, ob- 

 tuse. Rigid, persistent, analogous 

 with the Cantharclli, but differing 

 in the whole structure. Fries. 



The gills are more distant than 

 in any species of Agaricaceae. 



None edible. 



TRO'GIA Fr. 



After Trog, a Swiss botanist. 



Gills fold-like, edge longitudinally channelled (in the single Eu- Trogia. 



(Plate LVIII.) 



ropean species only crisped). In 

 other respects agreeing with Xero- 

 tus. Soft, flaccid, but arid and 

 persistent, texture fibrillose. Fries. 



Reviving when wet. Spores 

 white. Stevenson. 



Spores elongated or cylindrical. 



American representative, Trogia 

 crispa, var. variegata. 



Pileus and gills variegated with bluish or greenish-blue stains, 

 lake. September. Peck, s8th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Not edible. 



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TROGIA CRISPA. 

 Natural size. 



Sand- 



